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Wind Power

Wind Power

The Bonneville Power Administration strongly supports Northwest wind power development. We have more than 2,000 megawatts of wind power connected to our grid today and expect to have up to 6,000 MW by 2013. We are facilitating wind power's growth by:

  • Building and financing wind-integration transmission,
  • Revamping grid operation to handle large amounts of variable generation,
  • Creating new wind power friendly business practices.
News & Events
Wind Integration Team meetings and workshops
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Wind Generation last seven days

Balancing Authority Load and Total Wind Generation Chart, Last 7 days

General Information


BPA Wind Power News

Presentation: Integrating wind power (September 2009 pdf)
Map: BPA anemometer locations (August 2009 pdf)
Fact Sheet: How BPA supports wind power (March 2009 pdf)
Presentation: Integrating renewable resources (March 2009 pdf)
Fact Sheet: Balancing act (Nov. 2008 pdf)
Presentation: Balancing act (Nov. 2008 ppt)
Northwest Wind Integration Action Plan (2007)

For more information, please visit BPA's Public Information Center.

Interconnection of Wind Power

BPA has built five substations and six tap lines to tie 19 wind projects totaling more than 1,000 turbines to its grid. For details, see:

Wind Integration Team Initiatives

BPA's Wind Integration Team is developing sophisticated new institutional and commercial approaches to managing power systems cost-effectively with large amounts of wind power. We welcome your involvement.

BPA Wind Power Purchases

Wind Research and Demonstration

Related BPA Efforts

Several BPA initiatives that are not solely related to wind power are still very important to wind power's development in the Northwest.

Other Wind-Related Links

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